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In article <Bs3xIx.C8@solbourne.com> ericr@solbourne.com (Eric Robison) writes:
>I need to buy either Director or Premier RSN.  Anybody out there
>got any good comparisons?  

My first response to your question is that they're very different 
types of products, though there are places where their functionality 
overlaps. Premiere is mostly a QuickTime editing package. Director is 
mostly an animation package. Premiere's strengths are in video 
editing kinds of things: creating transitions between video clips, 
doing special photographic effects with filters, etc.  Director's 
strengths are in creating a multimedia presentation that has lots of 
different objects (which can include QuickTime movies).  .  

Director does have a steeper learning curve than Premiere, but if you 
need to create animations from scratch, you'll have to learn Director 
(or some other animation package). On the other hand, if you've 
already got a set of animations and digital video clips and audio 
tracks and stuff that you want to put together, Premiere is what you 
need. If you know the desktop publishing world at all, a rough 
analogy might be that Director is like FreeHand (for creation) and 
Premiere is like PageMaker (for compilation).  (However, if you need 
to digitize video, Director won't help; I believe that the new Premiere 
will, as long as you get a digitizing board.)

There are a lot of other, more specific differences, but not knowing 
what you want to do, it's hard to make a comparison (apples and 
oranges, y'know?)

Judy Stern
Instructional Technology Program
UC Berkeley
jstern@garnet.berkeley.edu

ericr@solbourne.com  writes:
> I need to buy either Director or Premier RSN.  Anybody out there
> got any good comparisons?  I called Adobe and asked them why
> Premier might be better the Director. They claim they never heard of
> Director or Macromind. (yeah, right)
> 
> I've played with Premier 1.0 and it seems OK. Adobe says that they've
> added a lot of functionality to 2.0 and that it will ship in a few 
> weeks.
> 
> About the only thing I've heard about Director is that it's real
> complex, difficult to use, but it turns out much better work.
> 
I have and use both Director & Premier.  The packages are meant
to do entirely diferent things.  Premier is just for editing
Quicktime movies.  Director is designed to develop
2D animations/presentations and output them in several file
formats, one of which is Quicktime.  Director also has its own
versatile scripting language, Lingo.  It is possible to edit a
Quicktime movie in Premier and then integrate it into a much
larger, interactive program developed in Director.

Hope this helps.
--
John Jackson                            jmj5g@galen.med.virginia.edu
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University of Virginia                  (804)924-5839

In article <Bs3xIx.C8@solbourne.com> ericr@solbourne.com (Eric Robison)  
writes:
> I need to buy either Director or Premier RSN.  Anybody out there
> got any good comparisons?

As mentioned (probably a dozen times by now) these are two completely
separate products.  I've done animation with both.  Director is definitely
the better of the two- Premier is too simplistic and weak for anything
much beyond "Gee-Whiz" Video Spigoted movies.  I haven't used v2.0 yet,
but it would have to be an enormous upgrade to make it come close to
director.  Another advantage to Director is that it lets you create
interactive presentations.  Premier does not (at least as best I can  
tell).